Vatican Astrophysicists Offer New Way to Study Gravity After the Big Bang

Religion News Service ^ | 5/6/22 | Claire Giangrave

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Speaking from the Vatican observatory, Jesuit Father Gabriele Gionti and Diocesan Father Matteo Galaverni outlined their hopes for unveiling the secrets of the cosmos.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Two Catholic priests, both astrophysicists from the Vatican Observatory, have suggested a radically new mathematical approach to studying the initial moments following the Big Bang that gave birth to our universe.

Little is known about the first seconds of the universe’s existence, and one of the deeper puzzles is accounting for the role gravity played in those early moments. The Rev. Gabriele Gionti, a Jesuit, and the Rev. Matteo Galaverni, a priest in the Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla in Northern Italy, set out to propose a new technique that explains how gravity might have behaved as the cosmos expanded rapidly at its inception.

Their research, published in the prestigious Physical Review D journal on April 15, proposes an alternative to the Jordans-Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation, which solves difficulties with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity in describing gravity after the Big Bang, but which has its own inconsistencies.

Einstein’s theory works well in explaining the way matter behaves on a large scale but clashes with the way quantum physics describes the gravity among the smallest observable particles. For years, Gionti has attempted to reconcile the two.

The priests’ work is “a tassel within this search that the scientific community has been conducting for many years on quantum gravity, meaning that gravity is capable of affecting (matter) even at a very, very small scale,” said Galaverni in a Zoom interview conducted by RNS with the two priests on Thursday (May 5).

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““Science also teaches me a certain humility in looking at the universe and recognizing our smallness and seeing the greatness of God in this,” he added.”

... which is possibly one reason why God created such an enormous universe.

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This is really sad. There is already a theory that is Biblically sound, doesn’t have a “Big Bang”, and explains why God manifests as a Trinity.
http://heim-theory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Illobrand_von_Ludwiger-The_New_Worldview_of_the_Physicist_Burkhard_Heim.pdf

The three spheres that are the First Distinction, have radii that match the cubit, the sacred cubit, and the rod from the Bible. The organization groups of the 12 dimensions in Heim’s theory match the grouping of the 12 sons of Jacob by their birth mothers. The Tribe of Judah is associated with TIME dimension.

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That theory has something in common with Kepler’s “Music of the Spheres” and the idea that each planet’s orbit was defined by one of the five platonic solids.